[Data-modeling] Amateur sportspeople

[Tom Morris]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Gavin Chan <gavin at metaweb.com> wrote:
> This makes sense to me, but I would change the name to something a bit
> more specific like "recreational sportsperson". The term amateur can
> refer to any athlete that isn't paid to play, which includes serious
> college athletes and most olympians. On that note, we may want to have
> an "amateur athlete" for this group of athletes as well.

Recreational vs. "serious" is going to be an impossible distinction to
make.  At least pro vs amateur has an easily measurable criterion.

Having said that, isn't the important thing the link to the sport?
Why not just make it athlete<->sport? Then it can be used for both
pros and amateurs.  If you want to include things like golf or trap
shooting, make it sportsperson instead of athlete. :-)

I think activity<->activity participant runs the risk of being too
general to be useful.  Musical Artist (aka musician) could be used to
capture Bill Clinton's sax playing if the description wasn't so
heavily biased to exclude those who haven't released albums.

Tom